Reload cigarette package



March 22, 1932. vw s, MILAM RELOAD CIGARETTE PACKAGE Filed Aug. 4, 1950yvmvron, 71,9 772 Ian TORNEY Patented Mar. 22, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE WEBSTER S. IEAM, O l GLENDALE, CAL HORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALFTO ANDREW 1!. SPINKS, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 4 RELOAD CIGARETTEPACKAGE Application filed August 4, 1980. Serial No. 472,901.

This invention relates to packages and especially to packages of smokersgoods such as cigarettes and cigars; it being understood that the wordcigarette as hereinafter used will be intended to apply generally tosuch articles.

' 'It is an object of the invention to provide a package comprisingcontainers each ada ted to enclose a flat pack of cigarettes and w ichcontainers are provided with a lacerable top with'which is combined ameans to lacerate such top to provide'for access to the top ends of theinclosed cigarettes.

The invention consists in certain advancements in this art as set forthin theensuing disclosure and having, with the above, additional objectsand advantages, and whose construction, combination and details ofmeans, and the manner of operation will be made manifest in thedescription of the hereas it is more directly claimed hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a perspective of the spread containers of the package.

Each container encases what is here called a pack of cigarettes, in thisembodiment each pack comprising only a single layer. The top and bottomof each container is closed across the ends of the pack and the tops ofthe containers are provided with means to rip open the top 5. Such meansis here shownas including a rip cord or thread 6.

It will be seen that while the package may be vended without a wrapperit is capable of being vended in a low-cost, readily removed cover, notshown, or the package may be vended in an original can or box of anysuitable nature.

The sealed package may be disposed unprotected with the containers 2-3laid flatwise as in Figure 2, in a pocket of wearing apparel in aposition to be readily accessed by merely ripping open the container top5 as desired to expose the contents. Or, as aboveindicated, the packagecan be encased in a more or less expensive case not shown.

What is claimed is A smokers package including a multichamber envelopeof transparent sheet material, each chamber containing a plurality ofcigarettes lying in parallel and the chambers being hinged together on aline parallel to the length of the enclosed cigarettes;

the chambers being closed and sealed at and over the ends of the rows ofcigarettes, and a severing thread laid in closed ends of the chambers;to facilitate opening for access to an end of a cigarette.

W. S. MILAM.

Figure 2 is a detailed section of the top of A a package.

Figure 3 is a plan of the packed containers of the package. In theillustrated embodiment separate containers 23 of any suitable material,but preferably thin, low-cost, translucent or transparent sheathingthrough which the contents may be visible are shown as connected by aback-bone or hinge portion 4 which is preferably of the same material asthat of which the containers are formed.

